Reveille (Noun)
Meaning 1
A signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
(military) signal to wake up.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The bugler blew reveille to wake up the troops for another day of training exercises.
- The soldiers knew it was time to get up when they heard the sound of reveille blaring from the speakers.
- The camp's loudspeakers crackled to life with reveille at exactly 0600 hours every morning.
- After a long night of maneuvers, the men welcomed the reveille as a signal to start the new day.
- Reveille sounded early, signaling the start of a grueling day of physical training and inspections.